Planned Parenthood Art Night Wednesday, Dec 8 2021 

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The Students For Reproductive Freedom held an art night at the Red Barn Tuesday evening. Students enjoyed free pizza, and relaxed drawing, coloring, and making art to wind down after a hectic semester. With the art they created, many students expressed their support for women’s rights and reproductive freedoms in response to the recent wave of restrictions put onto abortion access across the country.

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Honors Student Council Presents Small Press and Arts Fest 2021 Monday, Nov 22 2021 

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The Honors Student Council hosted their annual Small Press and Arts Fair in Bigelow hall in the MITC building Thursday from 11-4. Multiple  organizations made an appearance, like the American Association of University Women and Bake Like You Mean It, along with local student artists. Food was provided by Havana Rumba.

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Hite Art Institute Presents BFA Fall 2021 Exhibition Sunday, Nov 21 2021 

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The Hite Art Institute held its opening reception of their Fall 2021 BFA Thesis Exhibtion Thursday in the gallery of Schneider Hall from 5-7. The exhibition features artworks of this year’s Bachelor’s of Fine Arts students, in various mixed media ranging from traditional painting, mixed media, scultpure, and audiovisual. Each artist’s set of artworks focused on specific themes and motifs.

Focusing on themes of identity, image, womanhood, societal expectations, and bodily expectations, Anatéa Cahill juxtaposed food and product advertising with imagery of the artist herself that highlights the embedded themes and expectations within society that criticize and control the female body. Marketing materials for various products such as Jell-O, Lucky cigarettes, and lingerie, containing rhetoric of strict diets, slim figures, and standards of what is considered attractive, directly contrast against confident imagery of the artist showcasing a body type that has been deemed ‘undesirable’ by societal expectations.

Plaster, clay and acrylic contrast with moss and blackberry juice in Andrea Mackin’s works that showcase the artist’s journey into womanhood and inner turmoil dealing with themes of life, fertility, and purpose. Mackin’s artworks take the phrase ‘fruit of thy womb’ literally, utilizing blackberries to flesh out her skeletal pieces and convey the cycle of life and rebirth.

Working with wood, metal, and portraiture, Bethany Figueroa’s works deal with the artist’s experiences with religion, the hypocrisy of the Catholic church, and themes of war and bloodshed. These pieces are intriguing augmentations of portraiture, altering imagery of the mother Mary and Pope Pius XII using imagery of barbed wire, Nazism, graffiti and darts.

Michael McDonald’s digital illustrations paint vivid pictures of the wildfires, wilderness, and cities of California and the west coast.

Other artists’ works on display include Lou Conley, Samuel Lawson, and John Ricketts. The exhibition will be available for viewing until January 28, 2022 in the gallery of Schneider Hall.

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Black Lives Lost Transcend In New Play, ‘To Manifest The Ancestral Dream’ Friday, Oct 9 2020 

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Author and scholar Estella Conwill Majozo started writing her play shortly after racial justice protests began in Louisville in late May. 

“We’re moving with the protesters, and this is an effort to offer a respite, to come in from the storm.”


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West End Magazine From 1970s Gets New Life In Revived Black Scene Millennium Wednesday, Oct 7 2020 

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Historical context is important to journalist Michael Jones, but he’s often found it lacking at Louisville media outlets. 

“The problem with the media is there’s no institutional memory,” he said as someone who’s been a member of the “mainstream media.”


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Review: Louisville Orchestra Opens Virtual Season With Well-Produced, Thoughtful Concert Sunday, Oct 4 2020 

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Performing groups have been slowly and carefully re-entering the concert waters, dipping their toes in what feels like a pool that could be either scalding hot or arctic cold. For orchestras, a socially-distanced, virtual concert (with fewer players) seems to be the safe alternative to filling 1,000 seats in a hall.

The Louisville Orchestra is giving it a try with a virtual season of four concerts, cutely titled “LOVE” (Louisville Orchestra Virtual Edition). The first show played live on screens around the world on Saturday night. 

The live feed cut out early on, interrupting Devóne Tines singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” but once things seemed to get back on track, Teddy Abrams conducted the strings in Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst (2012), a short, exciting opener commissioned by the Sphinx Organization. 


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Tribute To Breonna Taylor Opens Louisville Orchestra Virtual Fall Season Saturday, Oct 3 2020 

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines said the music and lyrics for the composition “Vigil” came to him in the wee hours of the morning, during an improv session with a close friend of his.

“My friend just started playing this very simple progression, and I started to sing over it,” Tines said. “And what happened was kind of unique in that the song came out fully formed in the first try.”


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Louisville Playwright Chosen For New Festival Exploring Race And Politics Wednesday, Sep 30 2020 

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Louisville artist Cris Eli Blak, “writer for the page, stage and screen,” said he learned about Regina Taylor’s new theater festival via a social media post. 

“I don’t have an agent, don’t have a manager or any kind of that showbiz stuff,” Blak said. “I get my opportunities from going online and just going on the hunt and being in way too many Facebook groups.”

He saw someone post about the opportunity to submit a short play in consideration for “Regina Taylor’s VOTE!,” presented by The Oaks Collective, and decided to give it a try. He wrote a play, titled “For Liberty, For Justice, For All,” and submitted it. Then, about two weeks ago, he received a phone call from a number he didn’t recognize.


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King Louis Statue’s Fate Remains TBD, While City Looks Forward On Public Art Monday, Sep 21 2020 

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The statue of King Louis XVI that once towered over passers by outside Metro Hall is now in storage, awaiting conservators to look it over.

“There’s no other plans in place right now except getting a thorough understanding of its condition,” said Louisville public art administrator Sarah Lindgren.

It’s been several weeks since the city quietly removed the statue of the former French ruler.


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All The Internet’s A Stage: Here Are The Louisville Arts & Culture Groups Offering Online Shows, Seasons Friday, Sep 18 2020 

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many arts and cultural institutions have moved much, if not all, of their programming online. Some offerings are free, others require virtual tickets. 

Here’s a list of what you can watch from your living room. 


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